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    Summary

    Leaf reflectance spectroscopy is emerging as an effective tool for assessing plant diversity and function. However, the ability of leaf spectra to detect fine‐scale plant evolutionary diversity in complicated biological scenarios is not well understood.

    We test if reflectance spectra (400–2400 nm) can distinguish species and detect fine‐scale population structure and phylogenetic divergence – estimated from genomic data – in two co‐occurring, hybridizing, ecotypically differentiated species ofDryas. We also analyze the correlation among taxonomically diagnostic leaf traits to understand the challenges hybrids pose to classification models based on leaf spectra.

    Classification models based on leaf spectra identified two species ofDryaswith 99.7% overall accuracy and genetic populations with 98.9% overall accuracy. All regions of the spectrum carried significant phylogenetic signal. Hybrids were classified with an average overall accuracy of 80%, and our morphological analysis revealed weak trait correlations within hybrids compared to parent species.

    Reflectance spectra captured genetic variation and accurately distinguished fine‐scale population structure and hybrids of morphologically similar, closely related species growing in their home environment. Our findings suggest that fine‐scale evolutionary diversity is captured by reflectance spectra and should be considered as spectrally‐based biodiversity assessments become more prevalent.

     
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